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Good evening. It's Thursday, June 29th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern, exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.
Tonight: in a landmark ruling with implications far beyond the specific case, the U.S. Supreme Court today struck down the use of race as a factor in the admissions process at both Harvard and the University of North Carolina. In the 6-3 ruling, the Court held that holding a person's race against them when deciding who is and is not admitted to universities violates the right of “equal protection” guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. In some, the practice long known as Affirmative Action – whose advocates have long claimed is necessary to combat racial discrimination – is now finally classified by the Court as itself a pernicious form of racial discrimination, the type of prejudice the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted to combat.
The principles enshrined in today's ruling extend far beyond the university setting. The use of race-based preferences of this kind has become pervasive in the U.S. They are used in the hiring process by the largest corporations and by state and federal government agencies in determining which citizens are and are not eligible for a wide array of benefits. We will examine the ruling, its consequences, and most of all, these two pressing questions: 1. Does the color of a person's skin determine the type of experiences and perspectives they should be expected to bring to an academic institution, a job, or a political conversation or is that merely just a type of superficial diversity weaponized by the nation's most powerful institutions to avoid and even prevent real diversity of thought and experience? –and 2. Can the assumption that a person's race determines their thoughts and experiences ever be anything more than the type of crude, primitive and offensive stereotyping which its defenders claim to oppose?
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